Scene on Radio is the Peabody-nominated podcast from the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University. Season 3—MEN—launched July 11, 2018; episodes post every other Wednesday. The podcast’s producer, CDS audio director John Biewen, describes the season-long series: “Co-host Celeste Headlee and I will be asking questions like, What’s up with this male-dominated world? How did we get sexism, patriarchy, misogyny? How can we get better at seeing it, and what can we do about it?” Scene on Radio is distributed by PRX.

A few hundred years ago, the great thinkers of the Enlightenment began to declare that “all men are created equal.” Some of them said that notion should include women, too. Why did those feminists—most of them...